Researchers at Pennsylvania State University studied the body mass indexes of fifth through eighth graders who attended both schools that sold junk food and those that did not. They also evaluated what happened when kids moved from schools that didn’t sell junk to schools that did. But no matter how they looked at the BMI data from the kids, they found no correlation between being in a school where “sweets and salty snacks” were sold and obesity. So basically kids who had access to junk at school weren’t any fatter than the kids who didn’t.

So kids are getting fat eating the junk they’re buying in the convenience store across the street from school, or, horrors!, the junk food at home, is the broad conclusion of this study.

Which makes sense to me. But it seems like if your kid wants to stash some food and munch all day, it wouldn’t be exactly impossible: